Re: Car seatbelts (Was: Re: HTTP is just fine -- v. HTTP is insecure --> need a better metaphor)

Robert Kaiser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.security
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Chris Hofmann schrieb:
> Personally I like the leaky pipe metaphor better.
>
> The problem is not with the site.  Its with the pipe that connects a user
> to the site.

Maybe a better word to use would be "unprotected" - I guess if we say 
HTTP is "an unprotected connection" that also makes clear that anything 
in traffic on that connection can be viewed and/or altered before arriving.

KaiRo
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